TURKEY REELS FROM BACK TO BACK MEGA QUAKES

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TURKEY REELS FROM BACK TO BACK MEGA QUAKES, OVER 2,300 DEAD, BUILDINGS LEFT IN RUINS, FELT AS FAR AWAY AS GREENLAND,
DESTABILIZED FAULTS ACROSS GLOBE

Ten thousand feared dead after mega earthquake as race against time begins to save victims who could FREEZE to death beneath rubble: Trapped survivors beg to be rescued on Facebook live after tremor rocks Turkey and Syria
First quake struck early hours on Monday as people were asleep in their homes
A second quake hit at 1:24 pm (1024 GMT), 60 miles north of first epicentre

As many as ten thousand people are feared to have been killed after two catastrophic earthquakes devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday.

With temperatures set to fall to near freezing overnight, rescuers are now in a desperate race against time to reach scores of survivors who remain trapped under collapsed buildings and who are at risk of freezing to death before help arrives.

Their conditions - and those of people left homeless by the 7.8 and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes - are set to worsen soon. Rain was falling on Monday and snowstorms that swept the country over the weekend are expected to last until Thursday.

The death toll in the unfolding humanitarian crisis has already passed 2,300 and is expected to rise 'significantly' as the disaster unfolds. The United States Geological Survey warned that fatalities from the quakes could reach as high as 10,000.

Victims still trapped in the wrecks of their destroyed homes pleaded for help over Facebook Live, while a journalist student in the Turkish city of Adana said he heard a survivor calling out from beneath the rubble: 'I don't have the strength anymore.'

Meanwhile, heartbreaking videos and pictures from dozens of cities across the two countries have shown weeping parents carrying the lifeless bodies of their children in their arms, miraculous rescues executed by emergency responders, buildings slamming to the ground in seconds, and entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble.

Pics (some maybe disturbing) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11718001/SECOND-mega-earthquake-hits-Turkey-hours-record-7-8-magnitude-tremor-kills-1-400-people.html

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Rare 3.8 magnitude earthquake rattles Buffalo, New York, Possible shockwave from Turkey Megaquake

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Buffalo at 6:15 a.m. today, rattling houses and waking up Western New Yorkers. “It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo,” tweeted Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz. “I jumped out of bed.”

Poloncarz said there had been no reports of damage. The quake was centered about 4 miles east of Buffalo, and happened about 2 miles underground, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt from Niagara Falls to Orchard Park, and in southern Ontario.

“Omg, I’m shaking in Cheektowaga!!!,” one woman wrote. Western New Yorkers wrote on social media that they at first thought the earthquake was a truck hitting their house, a water tank exploding, or a sonic boom. And, this being Buffalo, many immediately made a connection to snow.

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Witnesses recount how quakes rattled Israel,

sent hundreds fleeing buildings Health Ministry warns residents in Beit She’an area to boil water as temblors disturbed groundwater; Turkish rabbi reports two Jews missing near border with Syria The devastating earthquakes that killed thousands in Syria and Turkey were clearly felt in Israel, where they shook buildings and sent hundreds fleeing for cover.

The first temblor that struck in the middle of the night roused many from their beds. A second quake struck around midday when people were in their offices.

In the northern city of Haifa, buildings rumbled, sending people rushing outside as they headed for open spaces.

It was also felt in central Israel, especially Tel Aviv with its many high-rise buildings, where the structures swayed, sometimes for several minutes.

Some people posted videos on social media showing light fittings swinging as the buildings they were in shook.

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Turkey shifted by approx 10 feet due to earthquake!

The Arabian plate has moved about three meters to the northeast-southwest the shift moved the lithospheric plates by three meters, said Carlo Doglioni, president of Italy's National Institute of physics
and Volcanology (INGV). According to the scientist, it is as if Turkey had shifted to the southwest.

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Another earthquake felt in Israel
Magnitude 3.4 earthquake's epicenter is close to epicenter of 3.5 magnitude quake on Tuesday night.

An earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale was felt shortly before 5 pm in Israel Wednesday afternoon. This is the second such earthquake in Israel in less than 24 hours.

The Seismological Division of the Geological Survey of Israel said that the epicenter of the earthquake was 20 kilometers southeast of the city of Ariel. www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367150

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They said the death toll now is higher than it ever was for the last almost a century or so.

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More activity triggered in Israel

The Geological Survey of Israel’s Seismology and Earthquakes division confirmed that at 4:58 PM on Wednesday afternoon, a 3.3 magnitude earthquake shook Israel. The epicenter was located some 20 kilometers southeast of the city of Ariel in Samaria.

Less than five hours later, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit near the border between Syria and Turkey some 130 kilometers north of the border with Israel. The effects of that tremor were also felt in Israel.

A 3.5-magnitude tremor occurred at 11:14 PM local time on Tuesday night and was centered around 24 miles north of Jerusalem.

Also on Tuesday night, an earthquake of magnitude 4.8, followed by another of magnitude 3.2, occurred in central Turkey and were felt in Israel. www.israel365news.com/366636/earthquakes-shake-israel-three-times-in-24-hours-the-talmud-may-know-why/?vgo_ee=bJ4tWKzOYgj0JcDnQ7uiDXwFoqDlMHNmyq65fGLdufk%3D

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The recent quakes in Turkey/Syria that sadly killed thousands. Also opened Two enormous cracks in Earth’s crust near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes shook the region on Monday (Feb. 6), killing over 20,000 people.

The longer of the two ruptures stretches 190 miles (300 kilometers) in the northeastern direction from the northeastern tip of the Mediterranean Sea. The crack was created by the first of the two major tremors that hit the region on Monday, the more powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck at 4:17 a.m. local time (8:17 p.m. EST on Feb. 5).

The second crack, 80 miles long (125 km), opened during the second, somewhat milder 7.5-magnitude temblor about nine hours
later,Such ruptures appear commonly after powerful earthquakes, professor Tim Wright, who leads the COMET team, told Space.com in an email.

These two fissures, however, are unusually long, a testament to the enormous amount of energy the earthquakes unleashed.
“The bigger the earthquake, the bigger the fault and the more it slips,” Wright wrote.

“This earthquake fault is one of the longest on record on the continents. Also very unusual to have two such large earthquakes happening within a few hours of each other.”
The movement of the tectonic plates that caused the earthquakes was such that the cracks are clearly visible on the surface, running through towns and in some cases directly through buildings.